Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for October 10, 2010

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    starguy  over 13 years ago

    Shouldn’t Ensign Kenny be wearing a red shirt?

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    pbarnrob  over 13 years ago

    Mutations would be in his offspring (if he can still make offspring after all that cell damage). We’ll need a better error correction syndrome for long space travel, which should be available right after the cancer cure.

    Bone loss is a problem if you expect to ever live in a gravity field after months in micro-gee. We deal with it now with exercise machines. Not ideal, but it works. ‘Artificial gravity’ can be done a few ways, say tethered paired spacecraft (Ben Bova used this in Mars years ago, as have others.)

    ‘Space sickness’ is the same old ‘sea-’ or ‘air-‘, and clears in a couple of days. Immune response is different.

    Debris impacts are going to be a problem (especially in local Earth orbits, with all our irresponsible trash and junk) until we can figure out how to clean it up. There’s a business opportunity there for somebody!

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    zero  over 13 years ago

    @pbarnrob

    I’m always speechless when somebody lights it up - good one. BTW is your last name Shroot?

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  over 13 years ago

    How something called “Space Rapture”, a condition (if it’s real) in which astronauts start having seeing thing in space that are not there?

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    Sandfan  over 13 years ago

    These dangers are minor compared to the ones Kenny faces in the daily operations of the RU Sirius and its crew.

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    wicky  over 13 years ago

    “Space rapture” is when you go to a rock concert and there is an empty seat on either side of you.

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    Rwill  over 13 years ago

    You sure it isn’t “space madness”?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Tux6s7y_g

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    Sherlock Watson  over 13 years ago

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    JP Steve Premium Member over 13 years ago

    He’s asking you for a date, Sherlock!

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    alan.gurka  over 13 years ago

    No 1011, Sherlock!

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